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Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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I hate holidays because it's the quietest it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.
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I cannot keep a girlfriend longer than seven months. I have 12 jobs. I don't have time for my personal life. I'm fully aware that this is the sacrifice.
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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.
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To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.
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I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.
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Switching off perfection switched on the human quality
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Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.
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I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.
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I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.
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Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, 1, 2, 3, 4.
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When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, I want that.
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When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
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My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.
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Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.
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